Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

(The following appeared on The Hill website on February 23, 2011.)

Unions are not the cause of the country's economic woes, Vice President Biden said Wednesday.

Public employees are not the problem. The problem is much deeper, Biden said during a fundraiser in New York for Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.).

Rather, Biden said, unions are part of the reason the country has a middle class. 

Biden said the Republicans are trying to use the bad economy that their policies created to push a conservative social agenda. 

The full story appears at TheHill.com.

Thursday, February 24, 2011